UBIC, a leading provider of international litigation support and big-data analysis services, has announced that the Japan Patent Office has recently issued a Notification of Decision of Grant to the company for a patent application related to "word co-occurrence analysis." The new statistical framework developed by the company strategically...

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Gina M. Torielli to its Taxation Group as senior counsel in the firm’s Ann Arbor office. Ms. Torielli, who was an associate with Dykema from 1991-96, rejoins the firm after serving as a consultant on municipal finance and state tax issues arising in the court-ordered mediation of...

Jones Day ranked #1 globally in the Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg M&A league tables for the fourth quarter of 2014 and the full year, maintaining a position it has held for 57 consecutive calendar quarters.

Akin Gump advised Morgan Stanley in the sale, along with Chesapeake Energy Corporation, of natural gas producing assets in east Texas and north Louisiana to SND Operating, LLC. According to SND, the transaction was valued at $129 million in cash, subject to closing adjustments, and included 182,395 net acres, 73 percent operated by Chesapeake. As a result...

Akin Gump has announced that Andrew J. Brady, a former special counsel in the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Office of Chief Counsel of the Division of Corporation Finance, has joined the firm as a corporate partner in its Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Brady comes to Akin Gump from Skadden Arps, where he served as a primary point of...

Jeffrey Klein, chair of Weil’s Labor and Employment practice and partner in the firm’s New York office, represented football coach Jim Harbaugh in contract negotiations with the University of Michigan and the San Francisco 49ers, his former team.
The University of Michigan officially announced Mr. Harbaugh as the new head coach of its...

King & Spalding has recruited federal prosecutor Jason A. Jones as a partner in its Washington, D.C., office, continuing the expansion of its Special Matters and Government Investigations practice, which has added seven new partners in the past 24 months. Mr. Jones returns to King & Spalding from the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice...

The Warsaw office of Weil advised Banco Santander, S.A. on the introduction of 12.5 billion shares to trading on the main market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE). It was the largest-ever listing of a foreign company and the first listing of a Spanish company on the WSE.

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised Essel-Clean Solu Hydropower Private Limited on the $142.5 million financing of a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plant with a total installed capacity of 82 MW located in Solukhumbu District in the Eastern Development Region in Nepal (the Lower Solu Project). The Lower Solu Project is the...

Business Integrity®, the world leader in legal document automation solutions for law firms and corporations, announces it has been granted its twelfth patent. Patent number 8,788,929 was granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office protecting the company’s newest invention related to the field of script generation for use in software...

Kimberly Frank, an electricity regulatory attorney who regularly appears before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), has joined McCarter & English’s Environment and Energy Practice Group as a partner. From the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, she will continue to represent clients in a broad array of regulatory matters,...

The Women’s Political Caucus of New Jersey has presented William J. Palatucci, special counsel at Gibbons P.C., with its “Good Guy Award.” Mr. Palatucci received his award at the organization’s annual awards dinner on January 15, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick.

Gibbons P.C. has ranked 6th for pro bono and 23rd for diversity nationwide on the 2015 Vault survey. The rankings are based on the results of Vault’s annual survey, administered nationwide to nearly 17,000 law firm associates, who rate firms in a variety of areas including pro bono, diversity, and culture.

Fish & Richardson has been named the #1 firm at the International Trade Commission (ITC), with the most cases filed in 2014 according to The National Law Journal (NLJ). Fish handles more ITC patent litigation – about 15 percent of all active patent cases at the ITC each year – than any other law firm.